2011/4/8 NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>: > > Maybe the best thing to do at this point is post the output of > mdadm -E /dev/sd[bcdef]1 > and I'll see if I can make sense of it. Thanks for your advice! here is the output: /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 07ca9dc0:8d91f663:fe51d0ea:fe5e38c2 Creation Time : Mon Jun 8 20:38:29 2009 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 1465135872 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860543488 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Thu Apr 7 20:49:01 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 2a930ff9 - correct Events : 1885746 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 3 8 17 3 active sync /dev/sdb1 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 3 8 17 3 active sync /dev/sdb1 4 4 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 07ca9dc0:8d91f663:fe51d0ea:fe5e38c2 Creation Time : Mon Jun 8 20:38:29 2009 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 1465135872 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860543488 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Thu Apr 7 20:48:31 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 1 Checksum : 2a930fe8 - correct Events : 1885744 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 6 8 33 6 spare /dev/sdc1 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 3 8 17 3 active sync /dev/sdb1 4 4 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 5 5 8 49 5 faulty /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 07ca9dc0:8d91f663:fe51d0ea:fe5e38c2 Creation Time : Mon Jun 8 20:38:29 2009 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 1465135872 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860543488 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Thu Apr 7 20:45:10 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 5 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 1 Checksum : 2a930f0c - correct Events : 1885736 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 0 0 8 49 0 active sync /dev/sdd1 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 3 8 17 3 active sync /dev/sdb1 4 4 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 5 5 8 33 5 spare /dev/sdc1 /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 07ca9dc0:8d91f663:fe51d0ea:fe5e38c2 Creation Time : Mon Jun 8 20:38:29 2009 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 1465135872 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860543488 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Thu Apr 7 20:49:01 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 2a931027 - correct Events : 1885746 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 3 8 17 3 active sync /dev/sdb1 4 4 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdf1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : 07ca9dc0:8d91f663:fe51d0ea:fe5e38c2 Creation Time : Mon Jun 8 20:38:29 2009 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 1465135872 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB) Array Size : 5860543488 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 0 Update Time : Thu Apr 7 20:49:01 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 2a93103b - correct Events : 1885746 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 128K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 4 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 2 8 65 2 active sync /dev/sde1 3 3 8 17 3 active sync /dev/sdb1 4 4 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 ~$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : inactive sdf1[4](S) sdd1[0](S) sde1[2](S) sdb1[3](S) sdc1[6](S) 7325679680 blocks unused devices: <none> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html